In addition to NCBI as a source of GenBank files, the folks at the
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have kindly made the GenBank flat files
available through anonymous FTP. Thanks to Hugh Nicholas and
Alex Ropelewski.
They provide everything in the NCBI 'ncbi-genbank' directory tree
including the full release and daily cumulative and non-cumulative updates.
Update files are copied over nightly from NCBI.
To access the files:
SERVER: ftp.psc.edu
USER: anonymous
PASSWORD: <Email-address>
DIRECTORY: biomed/genbank/annotated
If users are running the Andrew File System (AFS) and have the PSC cell
(psc.edu) mounted, they should be able to copy the files from:
/afs/psc.edu/usr/anonymous_ftp/biomed/genbank/annotated
If you have any questions contact Alex Ropelewski at PSC (ropelews at psc.edu).
Dennis Benson
NCBI
National Library of Medicine
benson at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov